George RR Martin in The Fish Bowl

Green Light with Chris Long

Chris Long

Sports, Entertainment News, News, Football

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The mastermind of the most iconic show in television history, Game of Thrones, swims into The Fish Bowl to talk about his favorite topic.....sports! You know George RR Martin for his legendary writing and storytelling, but Chalk Media is betting you didn't know that George RR Martin is just as passionate about his favorite sports teams. Chris Long and George RR Martin cover NFL Football, favorite MLB baseball moments and just about every other sport as George proved he's the author of The Grays Sports Almanac. George talks about his childhood, his inspirations and what influenced his writing and storytelling. About Chalk Media: Following the unfiltered voice and vision of Chris Long, Chalk Media is the interactive online community for you, the intelligent and humorous sports fan. Driven by access, Chalk delivers a unique perspective that cuts through the canned talking points and provides a variety of content from your favorite sports and entertainment celebrities. Here at Chalk, we don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are rooted in challenging the perception of professional athletes. We embrace the “real” with a unique combination of humor and intelligence. Chalk is a community with a voice beyond 240 characters that brings a perspective and vibe to a traditionally brash and boastful sports media space. Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more. Nothing is off limits at Chalk - hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. 🌍🏀🏈SUBSCRIBE NOW ⚾🏒⛰️ http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I had a great conversation with George R.R. Martin, obviously the the brain
0:04.6	child for what turned into the Game of Thrones series and that's a set
0:09.8	and I never thought I'd say before that I sat down with George R.R. Martin, well
0:14.0	indirectly on Skype and it was awesome. He's an interesting dude, he's not all
0:19.2	dragons and in Direwolves, he's a big football fan, we talked about growing up
0:24.2	a Giants fan and kind of a Jets fan too, I don't know how that works but we did
0:29.6	talk about Wolves and we talked about his upbringing in New Jersey and how
0:35.3	pet turtles possibly played a role in the inception of the Game of Thrones
0:42.1	idea so to speak and we obviously talked about his new project, he's still
0:48.1	working, still creating wild cards.
0:52.9	I've been a Giants fan for a long time, I mean going to the first game I really
1:01.4	remember watching the kid was the greatest game ever played where the
1:05.6	Giants, that's so called greatest game ever played, it really wasn't that
1:08.4	great a game but it was pretty exciting which Johnny and I just beat the
1:11.4	Giants in the last quarter and one of the home arts of the Giants was always
1:15.8	great defense, you know it was the first franchise in the late where the fans
1:21.3	actually started cheering, defense, defense, defense and you know we had
1:26.7	Sam Huff in the middle of the violent world of Sam Huff and then later of course
1:31.6	Carl Banks and Leonard Marshall and LT and you know and of course the Super
1:37.1	Roll wins over to Patriots with people like Michael Stray and OCEU
1:40.7	and Ura and Kiwi Matthias Kiwin and to see this defense just
1:47.8	collapsing and giving up lead if the lead is heartbreaking for a Giants fan.
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